As far as I know Elephants are very sensible these, gentle, intelligent giants.

Main cause for the increasing number of elephant attacks is the shrinkage of their natural forest habitat. The devastation of the animal’s natural habitat is party to blame for the problem. Unfortunately innocents and children are among the victims of this terrible incident.

Unfortunately in retaliation, poor villagers have often killed elephants by electrocuting them, shooting them with poison-tipped arrows or leaving out poisoned food spikes.

Elephants have killed 239 people in Assam, while 265 elephants have died.

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my first question is .. how did elephants get drunk ? i mean how did they get access to liquour?
And i think villagers shud be given tranquizers, so that they can put elephants to sleep instead of poisioning them…..

It seems that elephants have elephantine extra curricular activities. Last year, while in Thailand, I saw them playing football and paint among other things. At that time, looking at their antics, I thought I was drunk. That’s another one for vagaries of life.

@Vin
It has been noticed that elephants have developed a taste for rice beer and local liquor and they always look for it when they invade villages. So when villagers make this drinks elephant can smell it so they always come to look for dinks…

@Hiren

Yeah Elephants are ver sensible and creative creature.

@WC
They dont have any bars or night clubs they just go home of poor villagers for osme drinking session:)

Elephants like humans have a distinct liking for alcohol. They smell it being made in small and often illegal village stills and descend on villages to drink. They can smash up many homes searching for the hooch.
As others have said the problem facing all wild elephants in Asia is habitat loss which leads to conflict with humans and deaths on both sides.
EleAid is a charity working for the conservation and welfare of all Asian elephants and you can find out more about the issues at our website